So write me off as a neo-con....
I know I should have expected this, and it's not the class (and I know it was BRCC that assigned the book, not the teacher), but after reading the first two chapters in my Political Science book, I'm really starting to get pissed. That textbook is pretty biased. Oh, they try to be subtle, but it continually points out the defeciencies and "motives" of conservatives and the Republicans, while giving the absolute most basic information about the Democrats and labelling them as mostly moderate with a few liberals.
Not that I'm a huge fan of either Democrats or Republicans, but fuck. I can pick out something the editor shouldn't have let slip every 3 pages or so. I mean, I'm not opposed to people having their own agenda and all, just not in my fucking textbook. They're elaborating so much on what those dirty conservatives do, that I wonder if anyone else in my class realizes they are getting half as much 'information' about the left and the Democrats as about those dirty neocons.
I swear, 'liberal' and 'conservative' didn't become dirty words till we made them such. I'm a classical liberal. Today that means libertarian and I'm classified right of the center. I swear, there are people who have labelled me as a heartless neo-con (like they even know what it is) because I don't think every social problem we have can get solved by throwing money at it.
So that's my tirade about my textbook.
For my next evil opinion... I downloaded the episode of CNN Crossfire from 2004, where Jon Stewart was a 'guest'. Man, up until last night, while I didn't always agree with him, I thought Jon Stewart was a cool guy.
I lost so much respect for him. He came in as a guest on this show, and completely tore apart Tucker Carlson. I guess anyone who heard about the video knew that. But the attack was totally unprovoked, Stewart refused to answer any questions that were posed to him, and lectured the hosts for the entirety of the show. I've become something of a Tucker Carlson junkie lately- I watch his show whenever I can on MSNBC. This is not an extreme right-wing crazy. He's very reasonable, very gracious, and very big on respecting his guests. I've never seen a big news man so undeserving of such treatment. And the entire time, Tucker was trying to pull it back to the discussion, while Stewart kept lecturing and lecturing, and finally ended with calling him a dick.
Moreover, I don't really even know what Stewart was bitching about. He kept telling the hosts to stop fighting (I'm sure he meant generally, on their show, even though, you know, it's a debate show), and kept making these snippets of points without once really explaining himself. He was smarmy, and condescending, and, frankly, though I've been hearing about if for two years and what a genius Stewart's speech on the show was, I'm fucking sorry I saw it. I can't remember the last time someone I really dig dissappointed me so much. He had the chance to go on someone else's show and be a grown up, and all he did was play partisan whiny word games.
*sigh*
Can't anyone just discuss anything anymore without presenting their "ideas" and then refusing to listen to someone else's? Ugh.
Not that I'm a huge fan of either Democrats or Republicans, but fuck. I can pick out something the editor shouldn't have let slip every 3 pages or so. I mean, I'm not opposed to people having their own agenda and all, just not in my fucking textbook. They're elaborating so much on what those dirty conservatives do, that I wonder if anyone else in my class realizes they are getting half as much 'information' about the left and the Democrats as about those dirty neocons.
I swear, 'liberal' and 'conservative' didn't become dirty words till we made them such. I'm a classical liberal. Today that means libertarian and I'm classified right of the center. I swear, there are people who have labelled me as a heartless neo-con (like they even know what it is) because I don't think every social problem we have can get solved by throwing money at it.
So that's my tirade about my textbook.
For my next evil opinion... I downloaded the episode of CNN Crossfire from 2004, where Jon Stewart was a 'guest'. Man, up until last night, while I didn't always agree with him, I thought Jon Stewart was a cool guy.
I lost so much respect for him. He came in as a guest on this show, and completely tore apart Tucker Carlson. I guess anyone who heard about the video knew that. But the attack was totally unprovoked, Stewart refused to answer any questions that were posed to him, and lectured the hosts for the entirety of the show. I've become something of a Tucker Carlson junkie lately- I watch his show whenever I can on MSNBC. This is not an extreme right-wing crazy. He's very reasonable, very gracious, and very big on respecting his guests. I've never seen a big news man so undeserving of such treatment. And the entire time, Tucker was trying to pull it back to the discussion, while Stewart kept lecturing and lecturing, and finally ended with calling him a dick.
Moreover, I don't really even know what Stewart was bitching about. He kept telling the hosts to stop fighting (I'm sure he meant generally, on their show, even though, you know, it's a debate show), and kept making these snippets of points without once really explaining himself. He was smarmy, and condescending, and, frankly, though I've been hearing about if for two years and what a genius Stewart's speech on the show was, I'm fucking sorry I saw it. I can't remember the last time someone I really dig dissappointed me so much. He had the chance to go on someone else's show and be a grown up, and all he did was play partisan whiny word games.
*sigh*
Can't anyone just discuss anything anymore without presenting their "ideas" and then refusing to listen to someone else's? Ugh.